Editorial
Matthias M. Tischler Some Thoughts on Transcultural Medieval Area Studies 1
Special Issue
Giuseppe Mandalà The Sicilian Questions 3
Texts and Manuscripts
Giuseppe Mandalà The Martyrdom of Yūḥannā, Physician of Ibn Abī ’l-Ḥusayn Ruler of the Island of Sicily. Editio Princeps and Historical Commentary 33
Nicola Carpentieri Towards a Poetics of Ageing. Private and Collective Loss in Ibn Ḥamdīs’ Late Verse 119
Archaeology and Material Culture
Angelo Castrorao Barba Sicily before the Muslims. The Transformation of the Roman Villas between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Fourth to Eighth Centuries CE 145
Antonio Rotolo Framing the Archaeological Data in Islamic Sicily. An Outlook from the Trapani Mountains 191
Ruggero Longo “In loco qui dicitur Galca”. New Observations and Hypotheses on the Norman Palace in Palermo 225
Reviews
Görge K. Hasselhoff Elisheva Baumgarten/Judah D. Galinsky (ed.): Jews and Christians in thirteenth-century France (The New Middle Ages), New York/Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 319
Horst Schneider Barbara Crostini/Sergio La Porta (ed.): Negotiating co-existence. Communities, cultures and ‘convivencia’ in Byzantine society (BAC – Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 96), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013 323
Görge K. Hasselhoff Achim Thomas Hack: Von Christus zu Odin Ein Karolinger bekehrt sich (Jenaer Mediävistische Vorträge 3), Stuttgart: Steiner, 2014 325
Fabian Fechner Görge K. Hasselhoff/Knut Martin Stünkel (ed.): Transcending words. The language of religious contact between Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Premodern Times, Bochum: Winkler, 2015 326
Marion Steinicke Kim M. Phillips: Before Orientalism. Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245–1510 (The Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia (Pa.): University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 328
Konrad Hirschler Kristin Skottki: Christen, Muslime und der Erste Kreuzzug. Die Macht der Beschreibung in der mittelalterlichen und modernen Historiographie (Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship 7), Münster in Westfalen/New York: Waxmann, 2015 332
Kristina Göthling Paola Tartakoff: Between Christian and Jew. Conversion and inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250–1391 (The Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia (Pa.): University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 336
Knut Martin Stünkel Matthias M. Tischler/Alexander Fidora (ed.): Christlicher Norden – Muslimischer Süden. Ansprüche und Wirklichkeiten von Christen, Juden und Muslimen auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter (Erudiri Sapientia. Studien zum Mittelalter und zu seiner Rezeptionsgeschichte 7), Münster in Westfalen: Aschendorff, 2011 339
Eulàlia Vernet i Pons Moulie Vidas: Tradition and the formation of the Talmud, Princeton (NJ.)/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014 342
News
Alessandro Vanoli Southern Italy as Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages. Religious-Cultural Heterogeneity and Competing Powers in Local, Transregional and Universal Dimensions 349